Renwick for Urban Shaman by Loren
Roberts
When the Manitoba Metis
Federation recently announced that it was going to actively
pursue a settlement with various levels of governments, for
land claims issues that stretch back some 140 years, the
public reaction was hardly surprising, though perhaps no
less tragic for that. Within days, both major local dailies
in our city were flooded with letters to the editors,
spouting the usual rhetoric about government handouts,
perpetually unsatisfied special interest groups, and old
(and therefore, the assumption seems to run, irrelevant)
history.
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